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A. P. SMITH.

. IMITTEN. No. 60,949. Patented Jan; 1, 1867;

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A. P. SMITH, OF STERLING, ILLLNOIS;

Letters Patent No. 60,949, dated January 1, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN :MITTENS TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, A. P. SMITH, of Sterling, in the county ofWhitesides, and State'of Illinois, have invented a, new and usefulImprovement in the Manufacture of Sheep-Skin or other Mittens; and I dohereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will ennble others skilled in the art to makeand use the some, reference being hztd to the accompanying drawings,forming port of this specification.

Heretoforc, in the manufacture of sheep-skin mittens, which, for warmth,are the most desirable, it hes been found extremely (liflicult to securethct'ncing to the mitten in such a. manner as to conceal the'stitches bywhich it was held, and thus prevent them from becoming so worn as toloosen the facing from the mitten. Bythe common mode of facing theshove-mentioned class of mittens, the facing WibS stitched to the mittenby hem-- ming it with the hand or with a. machine, which mode caused nconstant source of trouble and annoyance to the wearer, by theconsequent wearing away of the stitches, and thus setting the facingfree or loose from the mitten. To obviate the above objection is,therefore, the object of the present invention, and is satisfactorilyaccomplished thereby, and it consists in cutting the sheepskin, or othermateriul of which the mitten is to be made, in sections, and thou sewingup the facing with the mitten, as its several sections are securedtogether; the facing to the thumb bcing'secured to it in a. similarmanner to the hand portion of the mitten, and the thumbs being formednod produced in an extremely novel manner, so as to permit its facing tobe sewed up with it, as will be hereinafter particularly explained.

In accompanying plate of drawings, my improvement in the manufacture ofmittens is illustrated Figure 1 being a. View of the mitten after it ismade according to the present invention.

Figure 2, a view of that portion of the sheep-skin which forms the coverof the palm of the hand and the inside of the fingers, showingthe'munner of cutting it to-rcccive the thumb, the piece of sheep-skinfrom which it is formed or produced being shown in Figure 3; and

Figures 4, 5, and 6, show the ordinary mode in which the several partscomposing, the mitten were cut, by the-ordinury mode ofmunufncturing'them previous to the present invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A, in the drnwii'igs, represents the mitten after being manufactured.This mitten A in the present instance, is made of sheep-shin, tuned withthe vwool on, and faced with calf-skin; the sheep-skin from which it ismanufactured being cut out in two pitrrs or pieces, of the general shapeshown in fig. 2, of proper size and dimensions to fit the hand on whichit is worn, one section forthe back of the hand and fingers, and theother for the palm of the hand and the inside of the fingers, Thesection of the sheep-skin which is to cover the palm or inside of" thehand and fingers, hes a hole, B, cut init for the thumb, which hole iscut sufficiently long for the piece -or finp C to form the cover for thefront of the thumb, loziving it attached to the hand section at thepoint or end D, that'when the mitten is on, the hand is at the point ofjuncture of the thumb with the hand; the remaining portion of thethumb-covering of the mitten being produced or made from a. piece ofsheep-skin, E, cut out in the proper. shape to fit around the hole B andthe edges of the flop O to such hole. The facing for the mitten is cutout in a. similar manner to the sheep-shin, as above explained, when thetwo, the sheepskinand calf-skin, or other facing, 'being properly laidone upon another, their several pieces, with the facing, are sewed orstitched together in any suitable manner, after which, the mitten beingturned right side out, it is suitable for being' worn; the mode ofmanufacture, herein above explained, enabling the facing to the mittento be sewed with the 1nitten,rss its several parts are sewed together,so that when turned right side out, the stitches or sewing upon theinside will not be exposed to wear, the importance of which is obvious.

In order to morofully and to better understand my improvement embracedin this invention, 1 will briefly,

describe the ordinary and old mode of manufacturing sheep-skin mittens,the several parts of which the mitten is composed being shown in figs.4, 5, and 6, and lettered H, I, J, and K. H is the hand portion, cut forboth sides of the hands, front and back, with a. hole, L, in the properplace of the front section M of the some for the thumb; I the portionfor forming the thumb, and J and K, respectively, the facings for thethumb and the front or palm of the hand. The thumb and hand facihgs, Jand K, are firs sewed together around the thumb hole 0- of the handfacing, after which they are hemmed'to the mittenams mode, as isobvious,necessarily exposing I the stitches to wear-sud th mitte'n then sewedtogether in any suitable manner.

Although I have particularly dscribed my improvement in connectionwithsheop-skin mittens, it is obvious that it Can be ap ilied to otherkinds as w ell, and therefoi'e I do notintend to limlt myself to any onespecial-uppli-o cation of it. 4

I claim as new, and desire to seouro by Letters Pateut-- A mitten cut'insections, the thumhformod in 'part of the material taken from the thumbspace, without being wholly detached in the cutting ,'a,ll thearts'unitcd with the lining by a. single operation, substantially asdescribedw l I A B. SMITH.

Witnesses:

L. P. Jonson,

